Best find in several years

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I go to Washington state about once a year to visit family. I always bake in a half day or so to hunt some coins. There’s a particular bank I stop at that ALWAYS has silver, like $20 shotgun rolls that are solid silver and have the word ‘silver’ written on them. It’s a good bank to say the least. So I stop by this morning ask for halves and am told “we gave them all to a guy yesterday”. $&@#! The teller then says “I have 2 if you want them”. Of course I say yes and there’s clearly a 40%er in there. I thank her and ask if she’ll see if the other tellers have any left. No problem. The far teller says he has 3 and the middle teller who's Helping another customer says he has 2.

I can hear that 1 of the 3 at the far teller is a silver. When the middle says she had 2 the customer she’s helpin says “I was going to buy those”. My teller looks at me ackward and I say “not a problem” and she gives the 2 back to the middle teller. Meanwhile the far teller keeps checking his 3 coins with a funny look. I’m thinking the guy yesterday took the bulk of the score, the other customer sniped 2 halves from me and this far teller is going to undercut me too. Awesome. Eventually my teller returns with the 3 halves from the far teller do whatever he was looking at he left in there.

I throw them them in my pocket and walk out. When I get to the parking lot this is what is staring back at me.



Found the commemorative, 2 64-D’s and 6 40%ers.
 

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Very awesome!!!! :occasion14:
 

Twitch, crazy story man! That coin has so much detail left in it. Must have only had a few owners.
 

Looks like $12-14 on ebay's recent sold items; although I would probably just keep it for my personal collection.
 

Wow. A bucket lister for any CRHer!
 

Couple interesting notes:
today’s hunt took me over 500oz silver total for my CRH career. Not bad for a 2 box a week hunter.
This is my 4th oldest dates CRH find (1830 bust half, 1874 Indian head penny, 1890 V nickel and narrowly misses an 1895 Barber half).
my 2nd classic commem (also have a 1925 Stone Mountain) and 4th overall 90% commem.
 

Awesome thats a good score evry once in a while the right place the right time. Well done
 

Nice saves Twitch! I always look forward to your yearly Washington State post to see what I'm missing :laughing7: That commemorative is fantastic. I found my first two this year out of a teller tray as well. Also congrats on the 500 oz mark!! :occasion14:
 

Nice saves Twitch! I always look forward to your yearly Washington State post to see what I'm missing :laughing7: That commemorative is fantastic. I found my first two this year out of a teller tray as well. Also congrats on the 500 oz mark!! :occasion14:

Thanks. I'm pretty fortune that I have an under-hunted stretch to search. Either that or it just has a ridiculous amount of silver flowing through it. I know next time I'm heading out I'm going to call the bank 3-4 weeks ahead of the trip and see if they'll save the halves and large dollars for a couple of weeks for me. If it works it should be a gold mine. Or a silver mine.
 

What the heck part of the state are you staying at??
 

I’m going to pass on getting too detailed here. Follow Zomotion. He’s been killing it out west.

Like the diplomacy. BTW, do you check your car for tracking devices? (just wonderin'...)
 

I live in Washington, what bank is it so I can make sure that they have silver for you whenever you visit :-)
 

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